If You Are But A Dream Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays386

If You Are But A Dream by Brook Benton is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords D9, Bm5-/7, Cdim, E7, A, Edim, Fdim, E, A9, C#m5-/7, F#7, E7/9, E4/7, F#m, A7, Gdim, D, C#7, C#7/G#, D6, B7 and E7/9-. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro: D9 Bm5-/7 Cdim  E7 D9 Cdim Bm5-/7 E7 

A  Edim    Fdim    E       
If you are but a dream 
D9     A  A9 Cdim   A 
I hope I never  waken 
A   C#m5-/7    F#7       D9     E7/9      E7    Cdim  A 
It's more than I could bear to find that I'm forsaken 
   Edim    Bm5-/7 E7 Bm5-/7 Cdim      E4/7   E 
If you're a fantasy, then  I'm content to be 
D9 Bm5-/7      Cdim      E7   D9  Cdim    Bm5-/7        E7 
In  love with lovely you, and pray my dream comes true 
E7 Bm5-/7    A      F#m      D9        Fdim 
I  long to kiss you,  but I would not dare 
    E7  Bm5-/7       A      F#m    D9     Fdim 
I'm so afraid that you may vanish in the air 
E7 Bm5-/7 E       A     A7           Gdim     D 
So  darling, if our romance should break up 
  C#7  C#7/G#     D6  B7 
I hope I never wake up 
   D9     E7/9- Fdim  A 
If you are but  a  dream 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante